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General Assembly 2016: April, 2nd 2016
Wikimedia CH's General Assembly will be taking place on April 2nd in Lausanne from 10:15 am. After the General Assembly, a complimentary lunch will be available and finally a Wikidata training will be provided.
Save the date and check out all the information on the event's page: here .We look forward to seeing you there.

We would like to thank all the people who supported & joined us for the various events happening to celebrate Wikipedia's 15th birthday. The event received a good media coverage which you may consult in the press section.

Web 3.0, the power of the semantic web & structured data

The presentation of Wikidata and the 15th birthday of Wikipedia was celebrated in Lugano on January 20th. All the presentations are available on the ATED website. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the participants as well as ATED-ICT Ticino who hosted the event and helped us organize the event.

The conference room

Art + Feminism 2016

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Art+Feminism is a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, and to encourage female editorship. In 2016, the Wikipedia Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon will take place simultaneously in several cities in Switzerland from the 4th to the 6th March. See the french, german and italian event pages to get more information with regards to the different language-regions in Switzerland.

Wikimedia CH is glad to grant scholarships to active contributors living in Switzerland in order to attend Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario. You can submit your application via email to info@wikimedia.ch. Please note that the eligibility criteria to receive a grant is to be an active contributor to a Wikimedia project. Each person who will receive a grant is asked to commit to share your learnings & take aways from the event to your respective communities after the conference. Therefore we would much appreciate if you could detail, in your application, how you intend to carry this in 1-2 sentences. Last but not least, please indicate in your application whether you are interested to join for a shared transportation by bus to Esino Lario or if you wish to travel independently (by train). A departure from Bern to Esino Lario is scheduled on June, 23d at 2pm and a return leg will depart from Esino Lario to Bern on June, 26 at 2pm. The deadline for the application is on March 31.